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The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-06-02
FACTS ABOUT FENCES.
How to Construct One That Will Not BE
Racked by the Winds.

| Racked by the Winds.
Without proper fencing to keep ami.
mails in, bounds they will usually be.
come such nuisance as to be intoler.
able, and all interest in stock breeding
will vanish. Turned to pasture, it is
natural for animals when night comes
to endeavor to get back to their old
quarters, and if there be a weak place
in the fence or low spot they will take
as uniform height as possible, and par.
ticularly strong next the gateways and
near them. The same kind of fence Is
not adapted for all stock. and plain as
this must be to an observing man, it is
often forgotten. Wire fence will STOP
cattle and horses. but tn wires must be
very close together and drawn very
tight, or hogs and sheep will &C
through. A stone wall will not STOP
sheep unless wire be stret ched along
the top or board nailed on to posts to
force the sheep back.
This may be done by setting the
posts slanting enough so that the board
or wire will strike the heads of the
sheep. Thus fixed, stone wall will
keep hogs, and it may do so without
these extra precautions if no other hogs
are on the opposite side. If there are
it is only a question of time when they
will get together. A fence with the
posts set at the ends of the boards, two
boards high (the bottom one ten inches
wide. the other eight inches) and then
two barbed wires. will stop sheep and
hogs. The wires should be stretched
not long distances, and fastened to
stout posts well set. This done, and
the posts braced well, the fence is very
firm and will not be racked by the
winds nor injured by snow and frost.
1t is best to take all the stock to the
barn at night if the cows run with
them 1t will prevent their getting out
and at the same time prevent them
getting wild.-F. D. Curtis, in ~ p
Tribune.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-06-02
THE HOURS OF COMFORT.

Sometimes there comes within the hfe,
This checkered life OF ours,
So much of loss and pain and strife
That our sad eyes, with tear-drops rife,
Look UP and see nc flowers.
A sudden SORROW clouds the day,
And the tired heart grows faint,
For strength and courage die away,
And lips that have been firm 70 pray
Can only make complaint.
And life becomes at such time
An unattrsctive thing;
There Is no sound Of CHEEKY chime,
The days move on in dreary rhyme,
And bring no heart 70 sing.
II such time should come TO thee
And somewhere in the years
For every one its pain will be-
Do not despair, but try and see
Some sunshine through the tears.
And know that he whom sorrows teach
Receives a gift from Heaven;
His tenderness some hearts may reach
To whom the glad in vain might preach.
And joy through him is given.
o. then, be thou a comforter
To some more sad than thee:
And while thou thus doth minister,
Strange bliss in thine own heart shall stir,
And grief forgotten be.
-IHUstrdted ChriStiGn Weekly.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-06-02
The Worst on Record.

Kosciusko Murphy don't see you
and Hostetter McGinnis together as
much as formerly.
Gus de Smith-No, I've given him the
cold shake.
Murphy-What did he do?
Gus-Nothing, except he asked me
why thief, who gives his confederates
away, was like the capital of Turkey. l
said didn't know, and then the double
dyed assassin replied, Because he is
constant to no pal."'
Murphy-That was pretty tough.
Gus-Yes, / should say so. told
him never to speak to me again. I'd
shake my grandfather if he sprung a
gag like that on me.-Teras Sifiings.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-06-02

Why is the upsetting of q gentle
mans dinner-table like a great politi-
cal crisis? Because it is the breaking
up of china, the upsetting of grease,
and the downfall of turkey.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-06-02

"A coated teakettle may be cleansed
BY boiling in it spoonful of ammonia.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-06-02

-Strips Of oil cloth about six inches
wide sewed firmly with linen thread
across TIE ends of tapestry rug will
serve to make the rug lie perfectly fiat
IS long as the oil cloth lasts. Care
must be taken that the stitches do not
show through on the right sida-LndS
G1dpolis JoRfzlak
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-23
BRITISH wORkAIEN.
They State Their Grievances, and Lord Sails
bury Promises Relief

They State Their Grievances, and Lord Sails
bury Promises Relief
Special to the indianapolis journal.
LONDON, July 22-The deputation of work
men that called upon Lord Salisbury today TO
demand protection to the British commercial
interest against the system observed by certain
foreign countries of comforting bountes and
subsidies, the most representative body of
genuine workmen that approached the
English Prime Minister q similar errand, or,
indeed, upon any pretext. and the Premier was
not slow TO recognize the facr. The deputatio1
received with the utmost con-
sideratiop, and the undoubted Importance
of ther missions given due attention. In
replying to the statement of grievances present
ed by the deputatioE. Lord Salisbury entered
into the spirit of Indignation manifested by his
workers, and indicated in the paInest possible
manner his thorough appreciation of the disad-
vantage to which British workmen are subjected
by the pernicious system in vogue abroad and
against which there now legitimate
retail atory measures available. His unhestat-
ing advice to Englishmen to blow
for blow denotes that the leader of
the Conservative party is last alive
to the vital i'm portauce of investigating the
dition OF the laboring classes, and that the
strong arm of the government is TO be lifted in
their behalf in their contest against foreign in
cursions into the precincts of English labor,
rendering competition impossible. The indigna-
tion of British workmen against alleged ille-
gltimate foreign policy, Lord Salisbury said,
not only justifiable but quite natural. and
if the proposed European conference upon the
subject of complaint should fail provide
would itself apply remedy which he had every
confidence would prove effective
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-23
STAELEY'S EXPEDITION.

TeIegrams Showing That the Explorer Was
Alive on the I'd of the Current Month
BRUSSELS, July Ex-Governor Jansen of tn @
Congo Free State, july 20, telegra phed Gen
eral Strauch, Administrators general of the
Interior Department of the Central Goyernment
here as follows:
Send me 600 pieces stuff. Stanley started
July ID to Wadelia-r
This dispatch was sent from ST. Thomas, and
General Strauch says he considers that the
tenor OF the message shows that General Jams
sen'in ordering pieces, relied on the expedition
making regular progress. News of Stanley's
rival at Aruwimi, dispatched by an English
officer whom Stanley lett in charge, in camp
there and this news taken by steamer to
Leopoldville, thence hy express messenger to
Borna. a route more easily and rapidly made
than the one to Matali.
A dispatch from ST Paul de Landa says:
1.-The Stanley expedition, arrived on May %,
at the confluence of the Aruwim and the
Congo, between Bangalas station and Stanley
Falls. The Fiotilla carried four hundred and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-23
TAYLOR COUNTY'S TAXES.
How Kentucky Citizens Propose to Resist the
Process of United States Marshal.

LOUISVILLE, July 22-United States Marshal
Gross and his large force of deputies. who left
Tuesday to levy on the propsrty of residents of
Taylor county Kentucky, for refusal to pay taxes
railroad bonds. has been boycotted by the
hotels of Campbelsville, which refused to enter
tain him. He. with his force. encamped in the
open air and not making much progress in
levying property. All the stores closed and
most of the personal property has been removed
and the livestock has been taken out of the
county. Several houses were levied upon in the
absence Of something better. large crowd of
people accompanied the officers, but attempts
at interference disturbance made Suit
was brought against the marshal to day for
$40. 600 for unlawfully camping in the court
house yard, by the county jailer The people
seem determined not to pay the taxes, and a
general boycott of the officers seems imminent,
neigh boring towns have said they would not
take care OF any stock levied in Taylor
county.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-23
fmprobability of the Story that the Monarch
lists EndeayOred to Induce Him to Head
Movement for Their Restoration.
Brstish Workingmen Complain of the
Evil Effects of the Bounty System.
News from Africa Showing that Stanley Was
Alive Three Weeks Ago-The Colorado
Beetle Actively at Work in Germany.
The Stories Told Concerning the General Ma
p rr,..s.. xu

The Stories Told Concerning the General May
React in an Unpleasant Way.
Special to the IndaSapoiis journal
LONDON, July 22.-The stories concerning
General Boularger's temptation to head mon
archist coup detat, which have been floating
about for the last few days, multiplying
rapidly, and abound in variety well in
number. No really believes that any of
them is well founded. but they have certainly
initiated against Boulanger's popularity, and
may ultimately work his destruction figure
in French politics. and possibly powerful
agent in the French army. The suggestion that
the monsrchists would choose Boulanger, of all
an attempt to restore the forever fallen mon
archy. is prna face ridiculous, and the infer
ence is that the stories of Boulangers patriotic
refusal to lend himself to the Orleanist
originated with BoulaIger himself or with some
overzealous and injudcious friend acting in his
behalf. Any way, the stories have overshot
the mark. Aside from patriotic considerations,
however, there is one other reason who Boulan-
ger may have rejected such overtures, if he did
reject them, and that IS the utter hopeessness
of the monarchist canse. The days of French
kings are over. There may be another empire,
but monarchy never.
La France, of Paris. maintains that the story
it published about Boulanger having been APP
preached with offers to place him at the head of
a military movement to restore the monarchy,
and his indignant and patriotic refusal, is strict
ly authentic and demands that General Ferron,
Minister of War, authorize Boulanger to publish
the names of the men comprising the deputation
that made the overtures
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-23
How Poverty Is tosbe Abo.,shed.

NEW YORK. July 22.-Cheers and waving of
hats and handkerchiefs greeted DR. McGlynn's
announcement in Irving Hall, last night. that
the Anti-poverty Society would have q candidate
of its own in the field at the next presidential
election. He made the announcement at the
business meeting of the society. He was max
ing speech in answer to the question. which
he said was being constantly asked, in spite of
the fact that he had answered it hundreds of
times already, How does the Anti-poverty
Society propose to abolish poverty IN He said;
How are we going to do it None blind
those who will not We going to do 1t
by talking to the voters. by persuading voters to
accept our ideas, by electing anti poverty
majority to the Legislature and to Congress.
In every future election to nominate
candidates of our own. pledged to carry out
ideas and we are to keep on reiterating our
platform of principles"
The audience cheered itself hoa-se when DR..
McGlynn said that the Labor party with it's
anti poverty principles would make no compro-
misses with any other political partv4 but would
nominate absolutely independent United Labor
candidates for every elective Office. Then he
said I'VE will have a candidate for President of
the United States too"
Hell be DR.. McGlynn" shouted an excited
anti -pauper, jumping out of his seat and waving
his black derby It was the signal that set the
audience wild for two minutes. DIR. McGlynn
went ahead with his speech in tho uproar.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-23
Referees Report on the Cutting Estate.

New YORK, July % The report of the referee
in the celebrated Cutting made to day,
and as consequence judgmen is IN large amounts
have been filed in the county clerks Office The
referee finds that between the death of Francis
b. Cutting, father of Gen. William Cutting June
%, 1880. and JAN 13, 1886, the son, as ex-
ecutor held or converted to his own use 81, ,S49-
575. OF this, $l04 l07 were his bv specific
bequest, or as income of property. With other
allowances the referee finds that General Cut
ting has been guilty of Misrepresentation and he
is not entitled to compensation He rules that
the Farmers Loan and Trust Company should
pay over to Lydia s. Cutting, as executrix of
Hayward Cutting. and to William Cutting, for
the benefit of Brockhoet Cuttings children.
81 $50, ,698 1t is thought by some that General
Cutting cannot meet the demands which will
be made upon him in the enforced settlement of
the estate. BY the terms of the will of Francis
b. Cutting there was nothing to be allowed his
sons for acting executors, and the referees
report. after listing number of transactions
showing mismanagement, comes to this conclu-
sion,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-23
Train-yVrecker Hanged.

NEBRASKA CITY July 22-David Hoffman
was hanged here day for wrecking Missouri
Pacific passenger train on the night of the lith
of January last at Dunbar, a small station of
the Missouri Pacific ten miles west of this
place. At the time of the wreck engineer De-
witt was instantly killed and number of pas
sengers were seriously injured Hoffman passed
n good night, having retired early and sleeping
soundy all night He ate breakfast of fruit
and few dslicacies. and ascended the scaffod
with firm tread. He made an effort to say
something, but broke down The trap was
sprung at 1924 and he strangled in eight
minutes. His body was cut down and turned
over TO the county coroner. His confederate
In the train wreckiDg is serving ten-years SEN
tence in the penitentiary. having turned States
evidence A militia company was called ont to
keep order but everything passed off quietly.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-23

New York, July 22.-The New York Life
Insurance and Trust Company. last Monday,
loaned III arcus p. Woodruff $40. 600 and took as
security thirty y-seven shares in the Chemical
National Bank. 1t now transpires that the
bank stock did not belong to Mr. Woodruff,
but to the Woodruff estate. of which Marcus
had been trustee until few monts ago, when
he was compelled to resign by his mother and
sisters who had discovered some Irregularities
on his part. Woodruff is little thirty
years of age and has led rather fast life. The
trust company discovered Wednesday that
the bank stock would not protect its loan.
Woodruff had been given two checks-one for
$50, 600 and another for $4,000. The larger
check has been traced and the money found in
the possession of the Adams Express Company,
who were to deliver it 10 a New York bank when
the check had been presented for collection.
This will be saved, unless the check is in the
hands of innocent parties. The smaller check
has not been traced. It is claimed that Wood
ruff is insane.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-23
THE OHIO NOMINATIONS.
How They Are Viewed by New York Repub-
lican, Mugwump and Democratic Papers.

NEW YORK, July 22.-The Tribune says:
''The machine wins In Ohio. as is to be expected.
Endorsement of the President naturally went
With the nomination of Mr. Powell The con-
trolling clique embraced men who had de-
nounced President Cleveland in most unmeas-
1red terms but that was when he declined to
rive the clique control of the patronage in Ohio.
In time, the President came to that he had
chance of securing a delegation from
Ohio favorable to his denomination. unless
by support of the perpetrators of forgery and
she other crimes for the benefits of Ohio
Democracy. Then came appointments express
ly for the benefit of the clique. and the pardon
Of persons convicted and the whitewashing of
persons accused of crime, so that the men who
have defied the laws in Cincinnati and Columbus
and have yet escaped imprisonment hand
In glove with the men who have been chosen to
represent reform the federal administration
They had reason to expect triumph in the
State convention, because that party cares little
Tor disgrace, but much for Office. and the men who
wanted place and tine men who had place were
Tor once united in supporting the administra-
lion."
The Times says: "The action of the Ohio Dem
ocratic convention substantially settles what lit
tie doubt there was regarding the denomination
Of Mr.. Cleveland by the Democratic party. 1t
does not by any means show that an overwhem-
Ing ma orIty of the politicians of his party wish
his denomination. but IL shows that those who
10 not wish it ana dare to say insigni6-
Iant minority The result os the Ohio conven-
hon may be regarded in one sense the formal and
othclal expression of sentiment in the Demo
cratic party of which there have already been
numerous indications. 1t is hardly worth while
10 enumerate describe these. Their meaning
has for some time been perfectly obvious. and
they have only been the scattered signs of the
act shown equally clearly by the obsolute alb
ience or any serious mention of a candidate for
he Democracy other than Mr.. Cleveland"
The Sun says: The politics of the past two
years have developed the fact that there are
emocrats and there are Democrats. The Ohio
convention at Cleveland yesterday nominated
Dne of the latter class. There are platforms and
there are platforms. 1t was platform belong
ing 10 the second category that some of the
Ohio Democrats adopted at Cleveland. There are
Ilso Endorsements and Endorsements Ttappears
10 be an Endorsement of the second. rather than
Of the first sort that Mr. Cley yeands al ministra-
lion obtained in Ohio yesterday. Harmony is n
great thing in politics. The word itself has n
oothing effect upon the it sounds well at
conventions when uttered soporiously with the
proper setting to the lower jaw. Success TO the
Democrats of Ohio with their candidate for Gov
rnor Gen. Thomas Il. Powell, of Delaware
county"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-23
SHOCKING REVELATIONS.
Ottawa Said To Be Disgraced by Practices
Similar to Those Exposed in London.

Special to the INDIANAPOLIS Journal
OTTAWA, Ont, July 22-The Free Press of
this city has created tremendous sensation
by the publication Of interview with Chief
of Police McVeity, in which he acknowledges
that precisely similar state of affairs is being
carried on in Ottawa to day as the Pail Mall Ga
zette. two years ago, showed to exist in London
Chief McVeity said:
''All sorts of men NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. al
men, civil servants, tradesmen, and others The
children are enticed in some to chambers,
in others to offices, and sometimes into stores.
These men give them money when they want it
In one a man gave girl Sc to hush the
matter up, and had to give another girl a
similar sum because she knew of it.
The children are mostly about eleven
years DID, and in many cases do
not know the evil they doing. Whom they
get little older they become recruiting
geants, and receive money from these men for
bringing them fresh children. The evil is very
widespread in the city, and mean to stop it if
/ can, but in most it is very difficult to
secure evidence. Not long ago l was certain of
it in the case of one child and I informed her
mother, but what can dol L cannot act with
out the consent of the parents. In this case the
mother merely denied it. and would
make -, no Inquiries was power
where mothers will take the matter
up, and, having their suspicious aroused, look
into the reports, and keep the children at home,
but they won't prosecute The press ought to
take the matter up There terrible
stories to be told and it will do good to draw
pubic attention to it. Quite recently two of
these children were in court One was not
twelve and the other, who is old hand is not
yet fourteen. One of the victims, bright,
pretty-lookng girl o. some thirteen summers.
who cried preously she told her touching tale.
said she betrayed by an Ottawa man in good
position, some two years ago, and gave
most revolving account of her history, as
well those of some eight of her as
sociates. She was just beginning her
-ecruiter, but fortunately for herself, il has
been cut short She gave the names and ad-
dresses of several men, if they are entitled to
the name, who were in the habit of seducing
young children and paying old hands for the in
PRODUCTION of new ones. From her account it
appears that these heartless ruffians take the
greatest precaution against discovery"
prominent city detective confirmed to the
reporter the foregoing statements.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-23

The Pest Again Appears in Germany and
Eas Apparently Come to Stay.


Special the IndanaDolis Journal.
LONDON. July 22.-While England has her
share of transatlantic disturbers in the shape of
Wild West shows American actresses and ladies
frantic to be presen ted at court, or noticed by
the Prince of Wales the agrculturists of
portion of Germany are lamenting a more ser
Gus american invasion in the presence of the
long dreaded Colorado beetle. which now seems
to have come to stay while the residents of the
territory not yet attacked await it's fGvent with
fear and trembling An American gentle
man, who arrived here to-day from East
Saxonv, says that the beetle has fairly
efforts which the German government
has used for the last decade keep the drea d ed
pest from its domains In previous years her oic
had made its appearance the crops ap
praised to be afterward paid for by the govern
ment, the vines were pulled together drenched
with petroleum and destroyed by fire. The
ports were made objects of especial precaution,
and the marts We're carefully watched. per-
in America frequently sent to friends
relatives specimens of the ten-lined and seem
ingly ten-lived insects curiosties. In the face
however, the insect has eluded the
embargo, and taken up its residence in
Germany. The German farmer lacks the per-
sistency and ingenuity of the American granger,
and being accustomed to rely upon the govern
ment for protection sueh an emergency,
most cases folds his hands in despair as he con-
templates the havoc wrought by this latest in
Fiction. Thu damage to the crops will oe seri
Gus this season, and may be ru.nous next year.
AS the beetle made its way across the Atlantic
eisurely. 1t will doubtless, in it's own good time,
appear TO the dweilers the shores of the
Mediterranean, the Caspian and the Pacific.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-23

fifty men. Only few were i'll. Stanley made
camps on the heights bordering the bank of tn Q
Aruwina commanding the surrounding country
The weather fine, anu the prospects of
reyfctuallng favorable. On June Stanley
started for MadelaI with escort of five Eu-
ropean officers and three hundred and eighty
men, leaving the remainder under officer
IN camp the Aruwimi At Borna it
thought IL would take Stanley two months to
reach Wadelai meet Emn Bey's camp It is
expected that the steamer Stanley. whose engines
were greatly strained by difficult passage up
the river, would be able to start. June 3, on Its
return to Leopoldvlle where she would repair
The vessel would then reascend tho river Aru-
wimi with the stores left at Stanley Pool and
men left at Borna under Captain Barttela.'